Jessica Murray

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Today in Focus · Is it cool to have no friends? · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

But I think other people would argue that it it's normalizing something that is becoming increasingly common for the younger generation.

Jessica, what about

Yeah, I think there's there's a slight inherent hypocrisy at the heart of this in the sense that these are people saying, I'm really happy in my life without any friends, and yet they're posting online to their thousands of followers.

They're seeking social connection but in a different way.

So are they really saying that that life without friends is fulfilling if they're filling that void with their followers instead?

It it kind of doesn't quite make sense.

There is sort of questions to be asked about about what they're doing.

Are they monetizing a lifestyle which actually is a bit more bleak than that they portray it?

And Jess,

From the experts that I spoke to, they feel that one of the big factors driving this is the fact that there are so few spaces for people to meet and interact anymore.

I mean, obviously the the big one is workplaces.

So so many of us are now working from home, either part-time or full-time.

So teenagers and young adults are kind of entering a a workplace very, very different from previous workplaces and

often aren't making the social connections there that they would have in the past.

But you know, even if you're looking at teenagers, there's a lot fewer youth clubs for them to go and meet people.

Just any just lots of social spaces have all been kind of stripped away.

And a lot of the experts I spoke to said that that's kind of undermining the ability of young people to just build those sort of basic social skills of of almost kind of like small talk, of like bumping into people, meeting people, saying hello, having a quick chat.

That doesn't

happen as much anymore kind of makes it harder to build really strong relationships and friendships.

So yeah, I think that is a a really big part of it.

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